AI Technology & Industry Review
In the new paper Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models, a Microsoft research team presents KOSMOS-1, a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that can perceive general modalities, learn in context, and follow instructions.
In the new paper Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers, a Microsoft research team presents VALL-E, the first language model-based text-to-speech (TTS) system with strong in-context learning. VALL-E achieves state-of-the-art personalized speech synthesis quality via prompting in a zero-shot setting.
Baidu, Inc. today hosted its annual flagship developer conference Baidu Create 2022. In the meeting, Baidu offered an in-depth exploration of Baidu’s research and analysis of future technology trends, covering a range of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, intelligent search, quantum computing and AI scientific computing.
In the new paper Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers, a Google Research team introduces Muse, a transformer-based text-to-image synthesis model that leverages masked image modelling to achieve state-of-the-art performance while being significantly faster than diffusion or autoregressive models.
Baidu research releases top 10 tech trends for 2023, e.g. big model building, digital-real convergence, virtual-real symbiosis, autonomous Driving, etc.
Colossal-AI (https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI), the widely-used open-source library for training, inference and fine-tuning of large deep learning models, has released a new automatic parallelism feature and functionality that reduces hardware costs by up to 46 times for AI-Generate Content (AIGC) solutions.
In the new paper Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models, Stanford University and State University of New York at Buffalo researchers explore the expressivity gap between state space models and transformer language model attention mechanisms and propose FlashConv to improve state space model training efficiency on modern hardware.
In the new paper OPT-IML: Scaling Language Model Instruction Meta Learning through the Lens of Generalization, a Meta AI research team presents OPT-IML Bench, an Instruction Meta Learning benchmark comprising 2000 NLP tasks and an evaluation framework for model generalization.
In the new paper GraphCast: Learning Skillful Medium-Range Global Weather Forecasting, a research team from DeepMind and Google presents GraphCast, a machine-learning (ML)-based weather simulator that scales well with data and can generate a 10-day forecast in under 60 seconds. GraphCast outperforms the world’s most accurate deterministic operational medium-range weather forecasting system and betters existing ML-based benchmarks.
In the new paper Point-E: A System for Generating 3D Point Clouds from Complex Prompts, An OpenAI research team presents Point·E, a system for text-conditional synthesis of 3D point clouds that leverages diffusion models to generate diverse and complex 3D shapes conditioned on complex text prompts in minutes on a single GPU.
In the new paper Mu2SLAM: Multitask, Multilingual Speech and Language Models, a Google Research team presents Mu2SLAM, a multilingual sequence-to-sequence pretraining method for speech and text models that covers arbitrary tasks in over 100 languages.
In the new paper FlexiViT: One Model for All Patch Sizes, a Google Research team presents FlexiViT, a flexible ViT that performs well across a wide range of patch sizes, matching or outperforming standard fixed-patch ViT performance with no extra costs.
In the new paper Structured Prompting: Scaling In-Context Learning to 1,000 Examples, a Microsoft Research team proposes structured prompting. The novel approach breaks through conventional in-context learning length limits, scaling to thousands of examples with reduced computation complexity and superior performance and stability.
In the new paper The Alignment Problem From a Deep Learning Perspective, a research team from OpenAI, UC Berkeley and the University of Oxford examines the alignment problem with regard to deep learning, identifying potential issues and how we might mitigate them.
In the new paper What Do Vision Transformers Learn? A Visual Exploration, a research team from the University of Maryland and New York University uses large-scale feature visualizations from a wide range of vision transformers to gain insights into what they learn from images and how they differ from convolutional neural networks.
In the new paper Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision, a research team from UC Berkeley and Peking University presents Contrast-Consistent Search (CCS), an unsupervised approach for discovering latent knowledge in language models.
In the new paper Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training, a Microsoft research team introduces Embeddings from Bidirectional Encoder Representations (E5), a general-purpose text embedding model for tasks requiring a single-vector representation of texts and the first model to surpass the BM25 baseline on the BEIR retrieval benchmark under a zero-shot setting.
In the new paper The Stack: 3 TB of Permissively Licensed Source Code, a team from ServiceNow Research and Hugging Face advances open and responsible research on code LLMs by releasing The Stack, a 3.1 TB dataset of permissively licensed source code in 30 programming languages.
Turing Award winner and deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, one of the original proponents of backpropagation, has argued in recent years that backpropagation does not explain how the brain works. In his NeurIPS 2022 keynote speech, Hinton proposes a new approach to neural network learning: the Forward-Forward algorithm.
In the new paper Transformer-Based Learned Optimization, a Google Research and Lund University team presents Optimus, an expressive neural network architecture for learned optimization that captures complex dependencies in the parameter space and achieves competitive results on real-world tasks and benchmark optimization problems.
In the new paper Fine-tuning Language Models To Find Agreement Among Humans With Diverse Preferences, a research team from DeepMind and University College London fine-tunes a 70 billion parameter language model to generate statements that maximize agreement among a human group with diverse written opinions.
In the new paper Compressing Volumetric Radiance Fields to 1 MB, an Alibaba Group research team proposes vector quantized radiance fields (VQRF), a simple yet efficient framework for compressing volumetric radiance fields that achieves up to 100x storage reduction, reducing original grid model size to around 1 MB with negligible loss on rendering quality.
In the new paper Convexifying Transformers: Improving Optimization and Understanding of Transformer Networks, a Stanford University and Google Research team provides a solid theoretical analysis of transformers’ fundamental mechanisms and introduces a novel convex analytic training framework for improving their optimization.
In the new paper Solving Math Word Problems With Process- and Outcome-based Feedback, a DeepMind research team conducts the first comprehensive comparison between process- and outcome-based model supervision. The two approaches achieve comparable final-answer error rate improvements on math word problems, while the process-based method significantly reduces reasoning errors from 14.0 to just 3.4 percent.
In the new paper I Can’t Believe There’s No Images! Learning Visual Tasks Using only Language Data, an Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence team proposes Cross Modal Transfer On Semantic Embeddings (CLOSE), an approach that learns high-level skills from textual data, then uses these skills to complete vision tasks without additional visual training data.
In the NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Beyond Neural Scaling Laws: Beating Power Law Scaling via Data Pruning, a research team from Stanford University, University of Tübingen and Meta AI demonstrates in theory and practice how data pruning techniques can break beyond the power law scaling of error versus dataset size.
In the NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer, MIT CSAIL and Meta researchers present a novel technique that enables gradient descent optimizers such as SGD and Adam to tune their hyperparameters automatically. The method requires no manual differentiation and can be stacked recursively to many levels.
The NeurIPS 2022 organizing committee has announced its annual awards, recognizing 13 Outstanding Papers, two in the Datasets & Benchmarks category, and a Test of Time Paper.
In the new paper SPACEx: Speech-driven Portrait Animation with Controllable Expression, an NVIDIA research team introduces SPACEx — a speech-driven portrait animation framework that generates high-resolution and expressive facial videos with control over subject pose, emotion and expression intensity.
In the new paper Fixing Model Bugs with Natural Language Patches, researchers from Stanford University and Microsoft Research propose a method that uses declarative statements as feedback for correcting errors in neural models, significantly increasing accuracy without high compute costs.
In the new paper Fast DistilBERT on CPUs, researchers from Intel Corporation and Intel Labs propose a pipeline and hardware-aware extreme compression technique for creating and running fast transformer models on CPUs. The approach achieves impressive speed ups and SOTA performance in production environments.
In the new paper Fine-Tuning Language Models via Epistemic Neural Networks, a DeepMind research team modifies large language models to create an Epistemic Neural Network. The novel approach achieves model performance comparable to that obtained via fine-tuning while requiring 50 percent less data.
MIT CSAIL researchers solved the differential equation behind the interaction of two neurons through synapses to unlock a new type of speedy and efficient AI algorithms.
In the new paper Transformers with Multiresolution Attention Heads (currently under double-blind review for ICLR 2023), researchers propose MrsFormer, a novel transformer architecture that uses Multiresolution-head Attention to approximate output sequences and significantly reduces head redundancy without sacrificing accuracy.
In the new paper VIOLA: Imitation Learning for Vision-Based Manipulation with Object Proposal Priors, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Sony AI present VIOLA (Visuomotor Imitation via Object-centric LeArning), an object-centric imitation learning model that endows imitation learning with awareness regarding objects and their interactions.
Colossal-AI releases a complete open-source Stable Diffusion pretraining and fine-tuning solution that reduces the pretraining cost by 6.5 times, and the hardware cost of fine-tuning by 7 times, while simultaneously speeding up the processes! The fine-tuning task flow can also be conveniently completed on an RTX 2070/3050 PC.
In the new paper Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT, a research team from MIT CSAIL, Northeastern University and Technion IIT examines how information flows during knowledge recall in large autoregressive transformers and introduces Rank-One Model Editing (ROME), a simple, zero-shot principled model editor capable of locating and editing factual associations in such models.
On November 3, GrowthEase, a one-stop enterprise service provider, and Synced jointly released AI-Powered Technology & Business Innovation in the Era of Digital Economy, a White Paper on AI Technology Applications.
In the new paper Efficient AlphaFold2 Training using Parallel Evoformer and Branch Parallelism, a Baidu research team presents a Parallel Evoformer and Branch Parallelism approach for efficient AlphaFold2 training. The novel strategy improves AlphaFold2 training speed by up to 38.67 percent without sacrificing performance.
In the new paper Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs, a research team from MIT, UC Berkeley, and FAR AI employs a novel adversarial policy to attack the state-of-the-art AI Go system KataGo. The team believes theirs is the first successful end-to-end attack against an AI Go system playing at the level of a human professional.
In the new paper When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Cherryade: Converting Feedback from Bad Responses into Good Labels, a research team from Meta AI and Columbia University proposes JUICER, a framework that effectively utilizes binary and textual human feedback to improve the conversational responses of dialogue models.